Tuesday, July 10, 2012
"Shale Play in Western Siberia is 80 Times Bigger than the Bakken"
Of course, having it be in Western Siberia, just makes we wonder a bit...
At OilPrice.com, James Burgess recently posted this:
"The Bakken shale is a huge expanse of oil-bearing rock that lies underneath Northern Dakota and Montana. Oil production in the Bakken has grown from just 60,000 barrels per day (BPD) five years ago, to 500,000 bpd now. It is predicted that the formation holds more than 24 billion barrels of oil, and that given enough rigs it could produce more than a million bpd by 2020 and continue that level of production for half a century. The Bakken shale play is one of the biggest in the US, but is absolutely dwarfed by a shale play in Russia. The Bazhenov is located in Western Siberia, and according to Oswals Clint, Sanford Bernstein’s lead international oil analyst, it 'covers 2.3 million square kilometers or 570 million acres, which is the size of Texas and the Gulf of Mexico combined;' an area 80 times bigger than the Bakken."